Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's still not widely appreciated that men can want to be objects , as much as agents , of desire . |
| 2 | how you can persist in being so utterly incompetent bewilders me , and so while indulging in a little light entertainment in the ZZAP ! offices ( brutally torturing the staff for being human ) I decided it was time I found a solution to the problem . |
| 3 | The only good and powerful females I can think of are fairies ( ie , not real people ) and for every fairy godmother there are 10 wimpy heroines waiting for a prince to rescue them . |
| 4 | The only reasons I can think of are 1 ) trying to scare Deano into scoring ( ! ) ; and 2 ) work permits . |
| 5 | ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’ |
| 6 | All they can think of is getting the adrenalin going with some warlike talk . |
| 7 | For half of the twelve tracks here , the Labèques use acoustic pianos ( that has always struck me as an oddity , by the way : a piano , or a guitar that was n't acoustic would be damned difficult to record ; the only non-acoustic piano that I can think of is Joseph Cooper 's dummy keyboard ) ; for the others we are told they play ‘ MIDI Grand pianos & Synthesisers ’ . |
| 8 | All you can think of is Harry , Harry , Harry . |
| 9 | Right there in the room with the killer , and all you can think of is to show him a good place to slug you . ’ |
| 10 | He tries to follow the line of Harry 's thought , but all he can think of is Harry 's accent . |
| 11 | All I can think of is not wakening the baby , so I say OK and he goes ahead . |
| 12 | I am obsessed by Giles ; all I can think of is whether I shall see him again , and when . |
| 13 | So , if talk of painting the town red brings the flaking bathroom walls to mind , in the only rush of spontaneity you can think of is your baby 's before you 've managed to get her clean nappy on , maybe you 're missing out . |
| 14 | The closest analogy I can think of is that it is very much like fishing , you never know what you are going to catch , you have to pull in the small ones when you are hoping for the big one , but occasionally a big one comes along when you least expect it . |
| 15 | ‘ Nearly everyone you can think of is a rival for Siward 's earldom , ’ Thorfinn said . |
| 16 | The simplest example I can think of is a hole . |
| 17 | Then , ‘ The only one I can think of is a Miss Moira Russell , Mr Massingham 's secretary . ’ |
| 18 | and the biggest pro for a fax that I can think of is that you can send the message and that 's that , there 's no risk of it dribbling on into , into doubt |
| 19 | I know they have n't , so that 's the only thing I can think of is over there on er that |
| 20 | The only one I can think of is |
| 21 | We have got erm some organisations , the ones I can think of is the Animal Sanctuary that we are all familiar with . |
| 22 | and it will not in that sense make any difference to God love , make a lot of difference to you and to me , but it will not make any difference to God 's love whether we spend our eternity in heaven or in hell , he will not love those in heaven any more than he loves those who are already , who will be punished for ever in hell , because God 's love is eternal , it did n't start at Bethlehem , it did n't start at Calvary and it does n't end when you and I die , as love is eternal , so God has provided salvation for every body and he offers salvation to all who will come to him in repent and and seine fe and except his salvation , you see when the Lord Jesus Christ died upon Calvary 's cross he died to make salvation available for who , for every body , you see he did n't just lay your sins on Jesus , listen to what the old testament profit Isaiah says , there in that tremendous fifty third chapter , and , and in what it 's in verse six , all of us says the profit like sheep have gone astray , each of us has turn to his own way , but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him , whether you and I reject Jesus Christ or accept him does not alter the fact that our sin was laid on Jesus the sins are the most awful person you can think of were laid on Jesus Christ , Jesus Christ paid the sins for , for , for , for men like Hitler , he paid theirs , the price for their sins , as much as he paid the price for the sins of somebody like St Francis of Assisi So God is not partial , it 's clear from scripture that all maybe saved , he made salvation available to all in that same book of Isaiah in chapter forty five , verse twenty two , it says look unto me all the ends of the earth are being saved said the Lord , in Romans one sixteen Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God onto salvation to all who will believe , and the verse we 've already quoted John three sixty , for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that who so ever believe in him should not perish , but have ever lasting life and Paul when writing to Timothy says he gives his own personal testimony he says this is a good and a faithful saying , it 's worthy of every body accepting that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved . |
| 23 | But I ca n't do it — all I can think about is Marie 's face . |
| 24 | She writes the words : arresting images ( lives that go in circles ‘ like a pigeon on a tyre ’ ) , moments of disturbing lucidity amid inscrutable dream-imagery ( ‘ give me what I want/ And all I can think about is losing it ’ ; ‘ why ca n't you do to my insights/What you do to my insides ? ’ ; |
| 25 | All you can think about is your mistress upstairs . |
| 26 | Much as I admire the French , nothing can compare with being back home in good old Blighty . |
| 27 | Co-operative schemes can range from being small and informal , to being relatively large , and highly formally organized . |
| 28 | No amount of money can compensate for being bedridden or a semi-invalid . |
| 29 | The most such a multi-modal transport document can attest to is that someone in a position to effect a future ocean shipment is in charge of the cargo and will be responsible for effecting ocean shipment . |
| 30 | And , after two weeks that would have cracked a lesser man , Taylor proved he still has what it takes to ensure that England can qualify to be one of the outside contenders . |